The Soul Hum

In this episode we speak Toni Giselle Stuart. Toni is a Sacred Storykeeper of the Womb. She listens for the stories that heal our inherited and ancestral traumas, reclaim our ancestral wisdoms and gifts, so that we can remember who and what we truly are. She generously lets us into her novel The Sonambulism Trilogy, a series of stories that she has been listening and bringing to life over the past 6 years.

Toni Giselle Stuart - Body of work

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In this episode of The Soul Hum we speak with Malika Lueen Ndlovu who joins us from the wild coast of Kwazulu Natal. We talk spinal archives. Cosmic waters, whales and symbols, numbers, universe, myth and bones. Homecomings. We flow with the conversational waters to the extent that Malika does not read the poems she had prepared and instead retrieves work from her archives with such attunement and grace, you would think it was planned. She shares 3 poems: Spinal secrets, Cleansing and Instruments.

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Malika's Poetry Loom: https://www.facebook.com/malikasloom

Poetic Memoir website: www.invisiblestill.co.za

Sonja McKaiser is on The Soul Hum today! Sonja is vibrant, dear soul hummers. She is a life coach, speaker and self-care facilitator with a wisdom that sparkles through her witty humour. There are lots of ‘mic drop’ moments in this effervescent conversation that can make great memes. Like this pearl of wisdom from one of Sonja’s teachers that opens our conversation: 'Every new person you connect with is a new universe you are about to experience’. Isn’t that lovely!?

But it is her devotion to helping women over 40 reclaim and revolutionise midlife that thread this conversation from micro self care habits, through boundaries, to living your most resplendent life. The gems in the details will have you prioritising toilet breaks and desk dancing as a matter of self love! Sonja helps us join the dots on self trust and abundance by carefully explaining how overriding the body's fundamental needs breaks down our inner trust. You can hear the light bulbs going off. 

Join us around 54m28s in dancing to ‘I bless my life’ by A Beautiful Chorus and remember SELF-CARE IS NOT A REWARD! 

What a joyful conversation. Thank you for sharing time and self-care practices with us dear Sonja McKaiser, and for all that you do to keep souls humming through your work and how you show up in the world. Respect. 

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Our 1st season of the The Soul Hum podcast rolls out this Friday 13th September in an enchanting conversation with Heidi van Rooyen. Heidi is an executive leader, professor, social scientist, psychologist and life coach. She is also the 9th child in a family of 11 from Wentworth in Kwazulu Natal, South Africa. Through her poem ‘last stop’ Heidi takes us on a journey back to her birthplace. She shares formative images, events and experiences of community that have shaped her sense of identity, belonging and purpose. Heidi shares 2 poems with us and evokes a soulful rejoice in us through her sharing on giving herself ‘permission to own her gifts’. We hope you will enjoy this delightful conversation as much as we do. 

On The Soul Hum we share story medicine, self-care and resilience strategies, practices that expand joy, and rituals that bring us back into intimate communion with soul, place and purpose. We explore and share the stories, prayers, praise poems, rituals and practices that reconnect us with our soul hum. We speak with peers, seekers and teachers who are living on purpose about what keeps their souls humming in the direction of love. Our following guests are Sonja Mckaiser on Friday 27 September. Malika Ndlovu on 11 October and Linda Kaoma on 25 October. Yay, yay, yay! Humming heart.

In this episode we speak with a spiritual poet, Linda Kaoma. Linda Kaoma is a spiritual poet. A poet and wellbeing practitioner. She holds a masters of arts in health humanities from the University College of London. Her thesis explores the potential efficacy of the poet as a facilitator for health in African communities. She mostly writes about mental health and spirituality. 

Her hope is that the words that come through her are as comforting and healing to others as they are for her. Her poems offer a chance to surrender, to reflect, to be reminded, to align, to meditate, and to connect with what is calling us. 

Follow her work on https://leekaoma.wixsite.com/lindakaoma and instagram @aspiritualpoet

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Welcome to The Soul Hum. This is a podcast sharing story medicine, self-care and resilience strategies, practices that expand joy, and rituals that bring us back into intimate communion with soul, place and purpose. 

I’m Nicole Klassen of NaluThando. I am a healer, dreamer, storyweaver and facilitator of family and systems constellations. I work with with my ancestors, dreams, visions and storying technique to support soul reconnection.

If your soul is humming to this vibration, then please join us on Substack @thesoulhum.